{"id":3067,"date":"2025-05-24T01:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2025-05-24T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:12:18","slug":"alarming-youth-mental-health-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3067","title":{"rendered":"Alarming youth mental health decline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While listening to a recent news broadcast, I heard an alarming, yet understandable, statistic. One in seven American youth (or probably even more) has a mental health issue. Why it is understandable, to me, is because I have a background as a counselor, and I worked consistently with people coming out of dysfunctional family backgrounds. Kids in these are abused physically, or emotionally, or sexually — or a combination thereof. This, in turn, leads to all sorts of mental health complications in the kids. Then there are the “screens.” A majority of kids, at this point, are addicted to their phones, to social media, to video games, to media entertainment in general. The brain atrophies with this. Then there’s the demonic component. That is, if these kids are consistently watching sinful stuff (sexual imagery, violent imagery, vulgar imagery…), it opens the door to just as consistent demonic oppression. And in some cases, it opens the door to demonic possession. It’s no wonder that many of these modern-day kids are mentally\/spiritually messed up. This is not psychological\/spiritual rocket science. For an in-depth look at these dynamics, including solid answers to all this (based on my years as a counselor working with this), see…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While listening to a recent news broadcast, I heard an alarming, yet understandable, statistic. One in seven American youth (or probably even more) has a mental health issue. Why it is understandable, to me, is because I have a background …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}